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OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY Columbus, Ohio 43211 1. No. 4. Present Name(s) 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 29. Basement? Yes X 3607 Pearl Road; east side, about 17. Date(s) or Period 30. Foundation Material If Rural, Township & Vicinity 18. Style or Design 7. City or Town 31. Wall Construction 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder gable, slate 33. No. of Bays 21. Original Use, if apparent 34. Wall Treatment Present Use 35. Plan Shape rectangle 23. Ownership Public Road? Changes Addition - Private X 9. Coordinates Altered O 24. Owner's Name & Address, in #42) Moved - if known 37. Condition U.T.M. Reference 3607 Pearl Road 8 9500 25. Open to Preservation Structure D Building * Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? 11.
On National By What? 27. Other Surveys in Which Included 13. Part of Estab. Yes O District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? 41. Distance from and 1,000 ft; 1,000 ft. 42. Further Description of Important Features ses and pointed windows, which one might find on a much larger building. Its front contains a large porte cochere made of stone, above which is partial basement, as there is a rear entrance below the main level. 43. History and Significance centerpiece to an important work of landscape architecture, as Riverside Cemetery has been plan and function to cemetery chapels of the period but is unusually well designed. 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings The cemetery stands at the west end of a broad processional boulevard in the middle of the 45. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by Cemetery dedication brochure, 1876, in the possession of Riverside 47. Organization 48.
Date 49. Revision Date(s) 1876 grounds deterioration Front sandstone Zone Exterior Northing fair Register? vacant 441650 Underway? Lat. CHAPEL Cleveland Cuyahoga Side Long. Victorian Gothic rock-faced sandstone (Explain Steven McQuillin Cemetery Association County Interior RIVERSIDE CEMETERY Riverside Cemetery Association Ohio Historical Center rock-faced ashlar Ohio Historic Preservation Office Frontage on Road Riverside Cemetery Chapel high ground in the cemetery.Originally a large fountain was at the other end, but that was Brooklyn Centre Historical Sod Eligible? Brooklyn Centre H.S 1000 feet inside the cemetery 4-85 This is a small building which has decorative features such as butres- Easting Sit E.O. Schwaegerl landscape archt FREEWAY 15. Name of Established District space with a small platform at the west end. There is at least a Potent"I?
This building is a most attractive example of cemetery chapel architecture. It forms a visual cemetery chapel replaced in recent years bya grouping of trees.The trees along the boulevard are also newer No 8 context of Brooklyn Centre, this was the only stone building constructed in the community prior to annexation and, along with the cemetery office building, remains as the only stone institutional building in the neighborhood. Verbal Boundary Description: Acreage: less than one The nominated property is wholly contained within Riverside Cemetery and consists 1876,the main office building was years away from construction and this was the The chapel is a good example of Victorian Gothic religious architecture executed in by placing the building at the end of a grand boulevard within the cemetery.In the Statement of Significance